Information can take many forms and be defined in various ways. It includes anything that is perceptible such as written, spoken, visual, and auditory communications. Information is also defined as knowledge communicated or facts that are learned and can be conveyed to others. It exists in different physical formats including print, audio/visual, and electronic. Information is all-pervasive in modern society and has become integral to science, technology, and everyday life due to pioneering work in information theory by Claude Shannon in the 1940s.
There are various Information Literacy Standards & Models.
The Aim of these S&M are to enable persons to acquire the necessary competencies and become Information Literate citizens.
The Standards provide a means to provide key milestones for students and assess their skill level.
There are various Information Literacy Standards & Models.
The Aim of these S&M are to enable persons to acquire the necessary competencies and become Information Literate citizens.
The Standards provide a means to provide key milestones for students and assess their skill level.
What is an Information Society
Why are Information Policies needed
What is an Information Policy
Elements of Information Policy
Who has Information Policies
E-Inclusion
Life Long Learning
E-Business strategies
Infrasture – physical (broadband/e-fibre)
Infrastructure – political / Legal and regulatory
Copyright, Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Freedom of Information
Regulation of Domain Name Spaces ( .ie)
E-government
Information Policy in Ireland
Information science is a multi disciplinary science with applications in a wide range of aspects. In this presentation there is a brief introduction to what is information science, how it orginated and characteristics of information science. It also covers the various definitions of information science.
This PPT contain details of Z39.50 and useful for Library Science students. This protocol used for information retrieval and in the end list of different types of protocols are given.
This topic was presented at a "Workshop On Best Practices in Library: Digital Library" Organised by Rabindra Library, Assam University, Silchar on November 29, 2013
This is the presentation prepared for MyLISA OPENS
This presentation discusses the Unit-1 of UGC prescribed text for NET examination: Role of Information
Information repackaging is a process to repackage the analyzed, consolidate information in that form which is more suitable & usable for library users. Customization of information taking into account the needs and characteristics of the individual or user groups and matching them with the information to be provided so that diffusion of information occurs.
What is an Information Society
Why are Information Policies needed
What is an Information Policy
Elements of Information Policy
Who has Information Policies
E-Inclusion
Life Long Learning
E-Business strategies
Infrasture – physical (broadband/e-fibre)
Infrastructure – political / Legal and regulatory
Copyright, Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Freedom of Information
Regulation of Domain Name Spaces ( .ie)
E-government
Information Policy in Ireland
Information science is a multi disciplinary science with applications in a wide range of aspects. In this presentation there is a brief introduction to what is information science, how it orginated and characteristics of information science. It also covers the various definitions of information science.
This PPT contain details of Z39.50 and useful for Library Science students. This protocol used for information retrieval and in the end list of different types of protocols are given.
This topic was presented at a "Workshop On Best Practices in Library: Digital Library" Organised by Rabindra Library, Assam University, Silchar on November 29, 2013
This is the presentation prepared for MyLISA OPENS
This presentation discusses the Unit-1 of UGC prescribed text for NET examination: Role of Information
Information repackaging is a process to repackage the analyzed, consolidate information in that form which is more suitable & usable for library users. Customization of information taking into account the needs and characteristics of the individual or user groups and matching them with the information to be provided so that diffusion of information occurs.
In HO (Human Orientation) of IT it's possible to give criterias for the human quality of Information. The goal is a human like and efficient transformation of Data to Information and vice versa.
Looks at School Library Month and other related celebrations (Naional Library Month and Library Workers Day) and discusses advocacy and advocacy plans.
Looks at different inquiry process models, including Kuhlthau's Information Search Process and Guided Inquiry derived from it, Big 6 Skills, plus a number of others.
What are School Libraries and School Librarians?Johan Koren
Looks at definitions and roles of the school library and the school librarian and follows the development of standards and guidelines for school libraries from 1845-2009. Considers also the radical new definition set out by R. David Lankes.
The Gift of Libraries and Librarians: Learing in the Curriculum
What is information: And what do we do about it?
1. LIB 640 Information Sources and Services Summer 2011 What is Information?And what do we do about it?
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3. Well, in human terms and in the broadest sense, information is anything that you are capable of perceiving. This can include written communications, spoken communications, photographs, art, music, nearly anything that is perceptible. . . . realistically, everything we come in contact with is capable of providing and does provide us with some sort of information. So we are essentially minute organisms afloat in a sea of information.
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5. Information can mean different things to different people Information is the act of telling or imparting knowledge. Information is knowledge acquired from another. Information is knowledge you can convey to others. Information is facts communicated or learned. Information is data interpreted to be useful. Information is facts and figures. Information is the ‘lifeblood of 21st century society’. Information is power. These quotes from ‘expert sources’ are courtesy of Open University's SAFARI tutorial. 4
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7. Data presented in readily comprehensible form to which meaning has been attributed within the context of its use. In a more dynamic sense, the message conveyed by the use of a medium of communication or expression.
8. Whether a specific message is informative or not depends in part on the subjective perception of the person receiving it. . . . Compare with knowledge.
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10. “. . . you know, there’s nothing as fluid as the information concept; it’s like . . . an amoeba!”
13. One of the problems with the term “information” is its vagueness. Information can refer to almost any piece of data, in whatever format, that is invested with meaning for either someone sending or receiving it.
23. Information is all-pervading! James Gleick: For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. . . . A rite of purification became necessary. And then, when it was made simple, distilled, counted in bits, information was found to be everywhere. [Claude] Shannon’s [information] theory [1948] made a bridge between information and uncertainty; between information and entropy; and between information and chaos. It led to compact discs and fax machines, computers and cyberspace, Moore’s law and all the world’s Silicon Alleys. Information processing was born, along with information storage and information retrieval. People began to name a successor to the Iron Age and the Steam Age. Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Kindle Locations 134-138). Pantheon. Kindle Edition. Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Kindle Location 126). Pantheon. Kindle Edition. 10
24. Why Shannon? Gleick: We can see now that information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principle. It pervades the sciences from top to bottom, transforming every branch of knowledge. [Shannon’s] Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Kindle Locations 141-143). Pantheon. Kindle Edition. 11
25. The result? Gleick again: After “information theory” came to be, so did “information overload,” “information glut,” “information anxiety,” and “information fatigue,” the last recognized by the OED in 2009 as a timely syndrome: “Apathy, indifference, or mental exhaustion arising from exposure to too much information, esp. (in later use) stress induced by the attempt to assimilate excessive amounts of information from the media, the Internet, or at work.” Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Kindle Locations 7201-7205). Pantheon. Kindle Edition. What is Information? 12
26. The solution? Gleick has none but hard work: No deus ex machina waits in the wings; no man behind the curtain. As ever, it is the choice that informs us (in the original sense of that word). Selecting the genuine takes work; then forgetting takes even more work. This is the curse of omniscience: the answer to any question may arrive at the fingertips—via Google or Wikipedia or IMDb or YouTube or Epicurious or the National DNA Database or any of their natural heirs and successors—and still we wonder what we know. Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Kindle Locations 7587-7588; 7592-7595). Pantheon. Kindle Edition. 13
27. Can we help? Is there help to be found from librarians? What is Information? 14